Imagine the Difference: key stage 1

The story starter, We're going to the Zoo, can be used to stimulate initial discussion and to get the children thinking about how the lead characters in the story have extraordinary and positive experiences even though they are 'different'. The story can be delivered as a Big Book on an interactive whiteboard.

The content for Key Stage 1 has been designed to facilitate four core lessons, each of which will take approximately one hour. If there is insufficient time to deliver the whole series of lessons, it is possible to dip into the activities.

Teaching and learning objectives are clearly stated at the beginning of each lesson, and four activity sheets provide further reinforcement of the learning.

Assembly ideas, based on the idea of recognising and celebrating difference, are provided along with three fully-worked Thinking Skills activities. These activities are designed to help the children make comments, observations and decisions based on the 'evidence', and can be tackled as individual lessons and revisited at different times to keep the topic alive.

Similarly, the Circle Time activities are flexible and open-ended and provide many suggestions for group and class discussion and opportunities for the children to work with their classmates.

To add a further visual and creative dimension to the topic, Displaying difference provides suggestions for art-based activities relating to the concept of difference. The activities involve a range of media that can be carried out during your regular art lessons, or incorporated into the core lessons.

Curriculum links details the sections of the curriculum that can be delivered through imagine the difference. The resource has been designed to help link to the guidelines and schemes of work for PSHE/PSE and Citizenship and there are also opportunities for cross-curricular delivery of English and Art and Design.

To download printable PDF files of the resource, please go to Teachers' pack.